Killing isn't free. It takes something out of you every time you do it. You get their life; they get a piece of your soul. It's always a trade.

When I read, I'm either reading to learn, or I'm reading to switch off.

If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long ago.

Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.

All life produces waste. The act of living produces costs, hazards and disposal questions, and so the (Environment) Ministry has found itself in the center of all life, mitigating, guiding and policing the detritus of the average person along with investigating the infractions of the greedy and short-sighted, the ones who wish to make quick profits and trade on others' lives for it.

At first, when California started winning its water lawsuits and shutting off cities, the displaced people just followed the water-right to California. It took a little while before the bureaucrats realized what was going on, but finally someone with a sharp pencil did the math and realized that taking in people along with their water didn't solve a water shortage.

I write at a standing desk, which has helped me be much more productive and solved some back problems, but mostly all my quirky habits have to do with procrastination and avoidance rather than with work. I'm slowly trying to stamp those out.